I’m a John Adams fangirl, so I wish he’d been in the show more.

There are a couple of tiny details the cast recording leaves out, such as the fate of Laurens. Seeing Eliza beatbox for Philip’s birthday poem, and her gasp at the end of the play are really things that the recording can’t capture, but the listener isn’t lost without them.

I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek with that. I know he didn’t actually force me into piracy. I’m just saying I was left with no legal way to see the show before the original cast departed, and so I chose to do a bad thing. If there was a legal way (i.e. buying a DVD) I’d be all over that shit.

I watched a bootleg video of the show last week. I feel bad, but I knew I’d never get to see the show with the original cast otherwise. Like most people, I can’t afford to go to New York and pay the ticket prices on top of that. I will buy tickets to see it when the show comes to a theater near me, but it won’t be the…

I’m proud to say that every one of my dogs has been a rescue. I currently have a mutt-of-indeterminate-origin and a Jack Russel who thinks he’s an old, fat cat.

I would bet the fucking farm that he’s not referring to his son’s drinking/promiscuity, but rather the victim.

I sincerely hope every single one of his presentations are interrupted by someone pointing out the victim was not sexually promiscuous. He raped her. The problem wasn’t drinking or that anyone was promiscuous (whatever the hell that even means these days.) THE PROBLEM WAS THAT HE RAPED HER.

I, for one, am fiercely glad he’ll never be his happy-go-lucky self. His father didn’t intend for me to feel this way when I finished his letter, but I smiled with grim pleasure. I am glad that his days are filled with anxiety and depression. I’m delighted that his every moment is consumed with worry and that he has…

The only time I’ve ever struck another human being in my life was in high school when a boy came up behind me and grabbed my ass, giving both cheeks a squeeze. I whirled around and clocked him on the nose. He actually fell, clutching his injured schnozz. I just stared because I was shocked he had touched me, and…

My periods were horrific, too. The first time the cramps happened, I thought my appendix had ruptured. I’m talking puking-passing out-sweating-crying-wishing I was dead kind of pain.

But I wanna see the original cast! *weeps in despair and bewails fate*

To that, they would respond that she should put the child up for adoption, because they imagine there are a kazillion good (meaning straight) families who want to adopt. And there are - indeed - a number of families seeking to adopt, but for the most part they want healthy white babies with no physical or mental…

The point isn’t to convince her she’s wrong... It’s to make abortion as difficult to get and as economically draining as possible. They know poor women can’t get three days off work, travel, and pay for a hotel to stay in another city. There will be many women forced out of being able to have an abortion out of that…

Quite telling, isn’t it, that the women in this ad are only valuable because of their relationship to a male viewer? YOUR daughter; YOUR wife. Presumably, the male viewer wouldn’t be as incensed over the idea of “men pretending to be a woman” peeing in the same room as some random girl-child or unattached woman.

Whether or not they had an established friendship, I can’t imagine this girl not helping the victim. I’d help someone I just met five minutes ago. I’d help a woman I passed on the street and didn’t even make eye contact with, for Christ’s sake.

My mother was organic before “organic’ was a thing. She made all of my baby food from vegetables she grew herself with no pesticides or artificial fertilizers. She kept her own chickens and bought meats from a farmer down the road. I was kept away from all dyes and chemicals to the point where I never tasted Kool-Aid…

I read a fascinating research paper about this a few years ago and wish I could find it again. At one time, Texas law stated that a woman could not own a dildo unless it was for use as an artist’s model or medical use. When purchasing one for purposes of the paper, the researcher actually had to sign a document…

Their whole point is to make abortion as expensive, inconvenient and emotionally difficult as possible. They consider it a plus that a woman has to take off two days work - she might not be able to do that without losing her job, nor be able to afford the expense, and so she might be prevented from aborting! Woo!

It’s a whackadoodle definition. I can’t claim to understand it (because I’ve never suffered massive brain damage) but somehow the government creates a corporate entity in your identity when you’re born. This entity is JOHN SMITH instead of John Smith. (Seriously, there’s some magical significance in the capitalization…

I’ve heard of the Sovereign Citizen movement being called a “cargo cult” and the description is apt. They seriously believe the legal system can be dealt with by using the correct incantations: “That flag has fringe!” Or... “I am john Smith the person, not JOHN SMITH the corporate entity and the charges are against my…